Role of Women in Forest Management

- Cudia, Jane Victoria A. February 23, 2011 2007-15891Soc Sci 180 Role of Women in timberland Management Increasingly, the situation of innate hoi pollois in tone perplexity and preservation had been recognized on the international take aim. dismantle if timber attention and conservation had been an natal practice since time immemorial, cite of natal peoples roles started only three or quadruplet decades ago.However, indigenous peoples as protectors of the environment argon taken as a on the whole disregarding the contribution of roles and differences as impart factors to the continuous practice of wood caution and conservation. In c every of IP roles in forest management and conservation, gender is a very important thing to consider. tending(p) an indigenous social and political context, the management of forests is communal. In general, forest management is to begin with the empyrean of men. Womens participation on the other hand earlier lies in forest pr otection because there is an paint a picture relationship between IP women and the forest (Caguioa, 2011).However, problem lies in the lack of recognition in national policies as to the roles of IP women in forest management and conservation. The waste forest of Brgy. Agawa, Besao, Mt. Province is a communal forest shargond by diametrical communities managed mostly by indigenous peoples. For the people of Brgy. Agawa, the forest or langdas is the source of alimentation and a place where their unique burnish thrive, one of the major features of indigenous peoples. In terms of livelihood, the langdas is the source of wild fruits and animals, lumber, and firewood.In the indigenous law they practice, selling of suffer lumber is prohibited. Also, outsiders ar prohibited from getting anything from the langdas making the practice sustainable. In terms of tradition and culture, they believe that there are spirits guarding the rivers and forests. This is one of the reasons why indige nous peoples do not exploit the forest resources. Also, they manage the forest in a sustainable way because of the belief that their ancestors, who were bury in sacred places, mingle with their affairs. The role of women in environment protection, forest management, and conservation is very distinctionificant.Two of the key informants of the translate conducted by Caguioa (2011) and her colleagues are old women who played out most of their life living in the area. The people of Brgy. Agawa, has a history of tube in protecting the langdas and the environment. One sign of stand firm they had done before was the delineation of older womens breast to defend people who wanted to operate saying mills in the area patronise in the 1940s. In response to the brain-teaser resin tapping activities done to pine trees that operated during the 1970s, women of Besao in secret removed the plastic catchers and burned all of it.In general, women of Agawa, Besao, Mt. Province show their prot est in the regional and national level in opposition of road construction, mining, and put down projects that will ruin the langdas. Amidst globalization, vulgar consumerism, juicy demands from the market, and laws that treat us all equals sometimes eveningtide without regard to culture, the people of Brgy. Agawa, Besao, Mt. Province specially women managed the forest in a sustainable way. Following their traditions and belief systems, they had managed to conserve the forest by following natural mechanisms to pay back the forest.Given the resources and knowledge systems we start as members of the dominant and so called developed society, we should develop forest management and conservation mechanisms that are easy and applicable. However, due to a market-driven deliverance we engage in, we have no turn back over our resources anymore. The working mechanism that flora today is what the market demands, the market gets even at the expense of the environment and the people wh o manages to protect and conserve the forest.Forest management, although primarily dominated by men, it should be the domain of all even if there are differences in gender. As seen in the campaign of Brgy. Agawa, Mt. Province, women had great contributions in forest management and conservation. It all goes down to this in impelling forest management and conservation, gender roles and differences have a lot to offer. Reference Caguioa, M. C. (2011). Panagsalaknib ti Langdas Role of autochthonous Women in Forest Management in Brgy. Agawa, Besao, Mt. Province from the ball-shaped Lecture Series on Indigenous Peoples Studies (University of the Philippines Baguio).